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MRI diagnosis shows prostrate cancer
Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Aug 2 4:43pm | Replies (14)Comment receiving replies
Hey carjcapt, have to agree with JC on this one and vehemently disagree with your urologist!
A PSA of 4 is NOT to be viewed as an absolute threshold for prostate cancer; the most aggressive types show very low PSA numbers and can kill you by very quick spread to other areas.
Secondly, family history - ie: GENETICS! is probably the number one factor in determining who will get prostate cancer.
Get away from this guy ASAP!! He sounds like he wants to be your friend - not your doctor. Cannot tell you how many friends and family had doctors like this; most of them went on to have very serious illnesses and some even died.
Not looking to be a downer or hold myself out as some sort of expert, but your doctor’s advice and views are in DIRECT opposition to what most of us have learned by having this disease.
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@heavyphil @carjcapt
Agree heavyphil. Was trying to help by providing my personal experices with this and to echo the hundreds of posts on MCC with other's experience. I have excellent medical providers at Mayo Jacksonville, and UFHPTI and without having great medical providers who did not like my rising numbers I don't think I would have caught my cancer at an early stage.
What I have read is genetics can play a role in almost all cancers and diseases. You could have a gene that leads to the cancer or disease or just predipsose you to it. I know my wife's family has history of dementia. Her grandmother, her mother, and her brother all died from it. We are hoping she is not predisposed to getting it. She is 77 and not signs yet but her doctor does a mental cognitive test every year because of family history of dementia. I know they are developing genetic testing for this and hopefully those in future will have that test and start early treatment (and hopefully treatments coming) for it.
Her daughter had breast cancer. They did a genetic test on her that revealed a gene that predisposed her to that specific agressive breast cancer. With that she had double masscectomy (spell) when they found a lumb in one breast that was cancer.